One of very few movies you can do very little to describe without giving away the movies big moment.

Our HR person is an Al and every new hire thinks they’re an AI.

Black holes not only don’t have surfaces, they dont have suns.

My extended family has worked for companies in the Disney umbrella and as part of one’s retirement package, gets free admission to Disney parks for them and family members. They get half price hotels in the area.

My sister and brother in law make real good money. Over a third of a mil a year between the two of them. They said it was pretty much breaking the bank/almost out of reach. With all that saved, it was about $10k per person for the 5 day trip. $40k vacation. Coulda bought a car.

One of their former content creators, Dave Jorgenson, was making great shorts and getting wapo into tik tok feeds and Instagram/yt/etc

He left to pursue his own content with the audience he’d gained through wapo.

They should band together, he has a solid reach on his personal accounts already.

Im taking your wife’s side.

Competition squeezes blood from a stone. There are very few world records that were set without intention.

To your side, you could argue that I am making your point. Perhaps some folks haven’t been thrust up to the plate to take a swing, and thus haven’t been tempered in competition. Also, it’s possible that knowing what the records are imposes psychological limitations. For example, Ewa Kawakami, at 9 years old, did three back to back 900s in xgames skateboarding vert recently. Tony hawk asked him how long after his first 720 did he land a 900. He said “the next day.”

I am still going with competition being requisite for peak form. There are exceptions, probably for stuff like Worlds Strongest Man, but something like sprinting, deadlifts, marathon, fastest playthrough of flight of the bumblebee, etc, all take dedication and competition to rise to the top

The world uses the USD as a global financial standard.

If it tanks or the world switches to the yuan as a global reserve…

Assets protect you from inflation, not from systemic risk.

I think you misunderstand how investments work.

So again, fun fact: you’re not in control.

Fun fact: you’re not in control.

You can do everything right and oopsie the USD tanks. Hyper inflation. Womp womp.

Just don’t put it on yourself with regard to it going tits up.

As far as I am concerned, every person or entity with a paid x account is actively participating in CSAM.

My first job was at a rather large shopping mall.

Closing up a big box store during a blizzard. Huuuuge parking lots. Plows.

Like 4-8" on the ground. Lamp surrounded by and unholy amount of plowed powder.

Just flooring it, cutting the wheel, spinning, spinning, and softly plonking into a big giant snowbank.

Being 17 wasn’t that bad.

Just?

Is your your brain setting your body down to bed? Your bed setting your body down to sleep? Do you have free will, or are we little automatons in a closed, predictable system?

Why does resting my brain take my brain to another world without my body?

…just… 🙄

I really don’t understand why I am supposed to pay federal taxes when they’re going to murdering my neighbors in the streets.

Not if you know JavaScript…

I have a .com for like $19.99 but pay to have my info redacted from whois stuff, an email address, all cones to like $42.99

I have a bullshit domain with some nonsense tld and domain name that I pay $0.99/yr for that’s on a vps I pay like $150/yr for all told (it’s doing stuff).

All told I keep it below $20/month.

Toilet. No bath/shower.

So two bathrooms. 1 is full bathroom. other is just for pooping.

you can just look…?

Just found 3 bed 1.5 bath for 6k/month.

Really not that bad. I mean it is, but for the East Village, that’s way cheaper than I thought I’d find. Place looks quite nice.

I highly recommend it to anyone getting into self hosting, sysadmin stuff, cybersecurity, devops, etc.

It’s headaches, but once it’s working, you will have ridiculously valuable experience for any org.

I might be misunderstanding this concept but it seems like extra work, or a recipe for an insecure mess that could become difficult to maintain.

I run elk stack and log basically everything which has created a centralized point for observability. This lets me granularly investigate and thereby control the state of all of my networks services.

It’s a little ram hungry, but I’ve got some overhead.

Are you under the impression that this prevented inflation somehow?

Spoiler: it didn’t.

Enough with the fucking doomer shitposts.

This is a fucking cancer on Lemmy, to the point that it feels orchestrated.

This is not a showerthought.